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Labour's Lisa Nandy asks about allegations made against Ben Emmerson QC, reported by the BBC's Newsnight programme.

An allegation of sexual assault was made against the then most senior lawyer to the child sexual abuse inquiry, who has been suspended and since resigned. Newsnight claimed that an investigation into the claims was dropped.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd says that she and the prime minister have set out what they know and that "it's really important that this inquiry continues". She adds that she believes that the questions she's been asked are for the head of the inquiry, which is independent of government, and not Home Office ministers.

She adds that it's time for Ms Nandy to "stop knocking the inquiry and get behind it".

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BBC Radio London Political Reporter

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has told an audience at London's City Hall that there have been times when the US election has been "downright embarrassing."

Mr Kerry is addressing young people at Q&A with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. He's the most profile US politician to visit City Hall.

Asked about the US election, Mr Kerry said: "this election has been difficult for our country's perception abroad. There are times where it's downright embarrassing".

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Peers move on to debate the Investigatory Powers Bill at third reading. This is the final stage of the bill's progress through the Lords.

Unlike in the Commons, the House of Lords can propose amendments to a bill at third reading.

Debate begins on an amendment from crossbencher Baroness Hollins which "aims to ensure that cost protections will apply to new claims alleging illegal phone or email hacking by newspapers".

She accuses the government of breaching a cross-party agreement by indicating that it will oppose the amendment.

Liberal Democrat Lord Paddick indicates that his party will support Baroness Hollins.

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The final question comes from crossbench peer Lord Ramsbotham, who asks "whether the Transforming Rehabilitation programme is... changing the lives of thousands of people by reforming the supervision of all offenders in the community".

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson and former police officer Brian Paddick said:"A full and proper inquiry is required to restore trust and confidence and I am dismayed that the Home Secretary has failed to establish one.

“People deserve answers about what happened at Orgreave. We must have confidence in our police forces and avoid any suggestion that there may have been a stitch-up by people in power to try to cover up wrong doing."

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Orgreave campaigner and former miner John Dunn reacted to the announcement that there would be no inquiry into the incident between police and miners in 1984, saying: "We've been led up a long, long winding garden path."

Mr Dunn called Home Secretary Amber Rudd's announcement: "An absolute disgusting whitewash."

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Labour's Lord Grocott asks about the policy on directly elected mayors.

He says Theresa May seems to be less keen on making elected mayors a requirement of devolution deals in England than was the case under David Cameron and George Osborne, and welcomes this.

"There's no question of areas having to have directly elected mayors," insists local government minister Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth.

However, he argues that elected mayors are a good idea when significant decision-making and budgets are being devolved.

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The SNP's Margarent Ferrier asks what the government is doing to prevent itself losing the trust of Muslims, who feel unfairly targeted by the "Prevent" anti-terrorism programme.

Home Office Minister Ben Wallace says that "Prevent is about safeguarding vulnerable people" says it's a "fallacy" to join the "echo chamber" that says Prevent is about "targeting one group rather than another".

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Liberal Democrat Baroness Benjamin asks about government plans to promote oral health for children.

"The state of the nation's children's teeth is shocking," she tells the House, and suggests that oral health should be "part of the daily school regime".

Health Minister Lord Prior of Brampton claims that children's oral health is "very poor but it is getting better" - but Baroness Benjamin shakes her head.

UKIP leadership candidate Peter Whittle said he had "pretty much dedicated my life to UKIP" as he spoke abut his future aims for the party.

He is one of four people looking to succeed Diane James and Nigel Farage, although eight people had initially declared their intention to stand.

The London Assembly member told Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn: "Our first goal was the referendum, and we got that. Our next goal will be to replace Labour as the real opposition in this country."

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Questions begin, as Labour peer Viscount Simon asks what is being done to encourage drivers to have their sight checked regularly in the interest of road safety.

Viscount Simon says problems with drivers' eyesight are connected to "2,900 casualties in the UK per year". He calls on ministers to do more to promote the need for motorists to have their sight checked.

Transport Minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon says the government plans to promote the need for regular sight tests during Road Safety Week, which runs from 21 to 27 November.

Liberal Democrat transport spokeswoman Baroness Randerson raises the case of people "who have good eyesight, but use it to look at their mobile phone when they are driving".

Lord Ahmad welcomes the sentence passed on lorry driver Tomasz Kroker, for causing the "awful... and tragic death" of a mother and three children while distracted by his phone.

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Labour's Andy Burnham, shadow home secretary until a few weeks ago, says that an IPCC investigation found evidence of perjury and perverting the course of justice and that "in the last month new evidence has emerged" of orchestration of violence by police commanders and the mass manufacture of police statements.

"Aren't we right in concluding that the establishment stitch up that she's announced is nothing more than a nakedly political act?" he asks

"No," says Amber Rudd. Mr Burnham is "entirely wrong, he chooses to politicise it". 

She says she's met with campaigners and had a "frank exchange of information" and made her decision "honestly, based on the evidence"

Reality Check

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There's going to be an emergency question in the Commons this afternoon after the Health Committee told the government to stop claiming it's giving the NHS an extra £10bn over the next five years. 

The £10bn figure refers to the increase - in real terms once inflation has been taken into account - that will be seen from 2014-15 to 2020-21. But £2bn of that was announced in the last Parliament so most commentators prefer to use the £8bn figure - or £8.4bn to be exact.

That figure is based on inflation forecasts before the UK voted to leave the EU - inflation is now expected to be higher as a result of the weaker pound, which makes imported products more expensive.

Also, some of the money for the NHS is coming from other parts of the health budget, further reducing the mount of "new" money. 

You can read more about this from the BBC's Nick Triggle here.

The Orgreave inquiry - or lack of - is dominating questions for the Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Conservative Alec Shelbrooke asked Ms Rudd if she or the policing minister would meet with him to discuss merging South Yorkshire police with West Yorkshire police, in order that police officers are not made to serve under the name of the controversial force. 

Labour's Andy Burnham called the decision an "establishment stitch-up" and a "nakedly political act".

The government could require employers to pay interns at least the national minimum wage.